Join us on Friday, December 18th 2020, 6 - 8pm ET for a Closing Reception of The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020: Here, Together! and Catalogue Launch with the TIAB 2020 Team, artists and a performance by Salomé Egas.
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Salome Egas, Reflejo (at Exponential Festival 2020), acrylic paint, mirrors, plastic, cardboard, metallic buckets, movement, voice recordings, music.Duration: 10 mins. Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk for Exponential Festival 2020 at Parallel Performance Space.
Salomé Egas
Reflejo
In Reflejo the dancer and performance artist Salomé Egas retells a story of the colonization of Ecuadorian indigenous bodies through movement. The artist juxtaposes Incan cosmovision with the catholic church in an elaborate setting. It is within this collision of sacred spaces that the erasure of Ecuadorian culture, language, and identity takes place. Staged as a journey, Egas uses lights, storytelling, body painting, and the physical stripping of indigenous clothes to embody and reenact generational lineage of colonization. Along the way INTI, the Incan God Sun, is captured through the use of mirror reflections. With a vulnerable sensibility the piece dramatically closes with Egas covered in white paint--a second skin that encapsulates internalized colonization and erasure of indigeneity. Reflejo represents how Egas’s ancestors were stripped of their culture and symbolizes how these practices continue.
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About the artist: Salomé Egas is a proud Ecuadorian mestiza performer who is investigates her identity through dance, theater and film. She graduated with a Master’s Degree from NYU Gallatin in 2018, focusing on International Education, Mythologies, and Performance, attended the Shakespeare Program at B.A.D.A. in 2012, and holds an undergraduate degree from Skidmore College. Salomé performed her solo performance “Reflejo” at the Exponential Festival (2020) and was selected for 2019-20 Creative Capital’s Workshop for Latinx artists. In 2018, she participated in EmergeNYC, Hemispheric Institute’s Program for Political Performance where she developed “(Up)rooted” which she later toured in several venues across NY. Salomé’s works combine her passion for performance and social justice to uplift and empower the voices of those alienated by immigration systems. As a solo performer and the founder of FUN Theater Collective (Fierce, Untamed Niñes), she incorporates radical self-love and indigenization as tools to empower the ancestral knowledge carried by femme bodies of color. Salomé has performed nationally in venues such as: Abrons Arts Center, LaMama, Dixon Place, NYTW, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, among others. Internationally, she has performed in several venues and festivals across Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba and Argentina as a lead dancer and soloist.